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Intel is in talks to buy Altera and it comes on the heels of a series of semiconductor mergers and acquisitions – including NXP and Freescale, Cypress and Spansion, Lattice and Silicon Image, Qualcomm and CSR, Infineon and International Rectifier, and several more. Each of these has had an influence on various markets writes Tom Hackenberg (below), principal analyst, embedded processing, for IHS Currently the jury is still out on Samsung acquiring AMD.

According to research performed by Lloyd’s of London insurer, Aegis London, “in the first half of the 2013 fiscal year, the US Department of Homeland Security’s Industrial Control Systems – Computer Emergency Readiness Team responded to more than 200 incidents, 53% of which were in the energy and utility sector, and many of them sponsored out of such states as China”.

A flurry of DDoS reports from DDoS protection vendors as of late, has Corero Network Security's Stephanie Weagle (below) throwing a hat into the ring. Its recently released report offers a unique perspective on the growing DDoS threat; offering a stark contrast to the majority of the reports that are saturating this months headlines.

Gaberlunzie had a rather hilarious experience recently and as it involves the important issue of savings, he feels like sharing it. He has a current account with his bank (not owned by itself but is part of a larger group) and he thought it time he opened a savings account. Accordingly he made an appointment to go and see the bank about opening one.

Ravelin, a smarter fraud prevention platform has announced it has raised a seed round of investment from Passion Capital that will allow Ravelin to continue product development and growing its initial beta customer base with a view to full commercial launch later this year.

During 2016, SEPA (Scottish Environment Protection Agency) will become responsible for regulating reservoir safety in Scotland. To ensure all relevant reservoir operators are fully registered with SEPA ahead of the change, a free six month registration period will open on 1 April, 2015.

As the £60m boost for community scale renewable energy project is in Loch Lomond National Park, Crianlarich’s powerful start to renewable energy scheme could also be echoed by parallel complimentary networking for broadband to local communities, so that the energy funding could more efficiently afford better links for remote Scottish rural communities than to date BT has to date been able to supply although it is recorded as trialling white space.

Chris Turkstra, senior director of Samsung is of the opinion that the IoT (Internet of Things) is currently at the peak of its hype cycle. Raghu Das, CEO IDTechEx agrees as widespread enthusiasm gives way to the pragmatics of understanding of the problems that IoT can address and that will create user pull.

For the third time in the last couple of weeks, Adobe is dealing with a zero day vulnerability in Flash. The vulnerability affects Flash on Windows, OS X and Linux. The company is working on a patch for another Flash bug that is being exploited in drive-by download attacks.

Intel has agreed to buy Lantiq, the German network chipmaker for an undisclosed amount to expand its range of chips used for the IoT Internet-connected gadgets, the companies said.

As the UK government has agreed to a ban franking, in protected areas known national parks "other than in exceptional circumstances" and has accepted an amendment by the opposition Labour party on tougher regulations, but in a parliamentary vote rejected any other changes to its flagship legislation debate has caused cross-party polarisation in Britain, with many MPs from different parties wanting to see a total moratorium adopted, as in France and The Netherlands.

Permeable pavements are already commonly used, in particular in Japan and the USA and in Europe used by Belgium and Germany. Now VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd has developed permeable pavements to reduce the problems caused by storm and runoff water in urban areas. to conform with CLASS ( (CLimate Adaptive SurfaceS)

As gamekeeper George Mutch is sentenced to four months in prison after conviction of the illegal killing of a goshawk, illegal use of a trap and illegal taking of a buzzard and a second goshawk, the RSPB Scotland also continues to challenge four windfarm developments in the Firths of Forth and Tay while urging the people of Dumfries and Galloway to protest the Spango (Mid Rig) wind-farm re-submission proposal.

UK telecommunications regulator, Ofcom, sets out its planned negotiating position for the 2015 global conference where decisions relating to the allocation of radio frequency bands are expected to be taken.

ESET has analysed new member of ransomware family (malicious software used for extortion) detected by its telemetry under name Win32/VirLock. It is claimed the first time ESET researchers have seen ransomware also act as a polymorphic parasitic virus infecting files on user‘s device.

In what some might see as a table turning development, Norway's Next Biometrics Group ASA, HQ in Oslo, sales, support and development subsidiaries in Seattle, Silicon Valley, Prague, Taipei and Shanghai, received a purchase order for 10.000 area sensors from the Taiwanese market for end 2014 delivery

EISJ (European Institute for Security and Justice ) a major new initiative which will examine a wide range of issues from terrorism and national defence to food, energy and health security, is launched at the University of Dundee.

Bluetooth 4.1 devices are rare (the specification finished only a year ago) and it is likely to loose out to Bluetooth 4.2 specification the already been published. The latest version is reported to brings privacy protections, increased speed for data transfers, and a more efficient design.

WHAT!! a grinch steal Christmas and you have to throw Christmas puddings at it and because it's a greedy pig and will overdo on the brandy butter, we will get Christmas back in one piece - yet? No, no, its a new bug that Alert Logic research team has discovered impacting all Linux platforms, including mobile devices. They’re calling it the “Grinch.” As 65% of all web servers on the Internet utilise a Unix/Linux based OS the “grinch” will have a huge impact on e-commerce sites - particularly worrying during the holiday period; furthermore it could be as astronomical as Shellshock; affecting not only home but corporate users too.